When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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